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Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model

Context: Cohere says an Alibaba Qwen model said it would not use tools, then tried to send a file to a server in Beijing; researchers say it is probably a training quirk.

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Monday, October 26, 2026, ranked 4
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AI, Security, Open source
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